Lead Python Developer

Experience in Python (Only Backend), Data structures, Oops, Algorithms, Django, NumPy etc.

• Good understanding of writing Unit Tests using PYTest.

• Good understanding of parsing XML’s and handling files using Python.

• Good understanding with Databases/SQL, procedures and query tuning.

• Service Design Concepts, OO and Functional Development concepts.

• Agile Development Methodologies.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach Skills desired.

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

Company Description

The Blue Owls Solutions specializes in delivering cutting-edge Generative AI Solutions, AI-Powered Software Development, and comprehensive Data Analytics and Engineering services. Our expertise in End-To-End ML/AI Development ensures that clients benefit from scalable and efficient AI-driven solutions tailored to their unique business needs. We create intelligent voice and text agents, chatbots, and process automation solutions, and our data analytics services provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI innovation and adoption, delivering value-driven, outcome-based solutions that empower our clients to achieve their business goals.

Role Description

We're seeking an enthusiastic Backend Developer who thrives on solving interesting challenges and building reliable, efficient applications. While basic competency in frontend (React) is sufficient, strong backend skills (Python, FastAPI, SQL, pandas) and cloud-native awareness are essential. The ideal candidate enjoys learning new tech stacks, and enjoys solving problems independently.

Required Skills (In order of importance)

• Strong proficiency in Python backend development with FastAPI.
• Familiarity with data analysis using pandas, numpy, and SQL.
• Familiarity with cloud-native concepts and containerization (Docker).
• Basic React skills for frontend integration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, adaptability, and quick learning abilities.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ Years of experience as Backend Engineer
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Azure Cloud Experience.
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Experience in AI/ML development is a plus

Why Join Us?

• Collaborative, remote-first environment.
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and learning.
• Competitive Pay.
• Engaging projects focused on practical problem-solving.

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

About Gobillion

Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.

Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.

We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.

Summary of role: As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of server side components. You will be doing the following on the job

• Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
• Create, test and deploy and maintain the applications on production servers
• Continuously discover, analyze, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Lead team in crafting solutions in different areas and ensure timely delivery
• Ensure secure architecture for Servers

Why Join Us?

• You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
• The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
• Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
• Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!

Key Responsibilities of this Role:

• Experience with DevOps and writing REST APIs & Micro services architecture
• Strong programming expertise in Node js, Nest Js
• Good understanding of Mongo databases and other NoSql Databases and SQL Database
• Solid hold on Data structures and Algorithm
• Good understanding of System Design
• Development expertise in AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS
• Good understanding of DevOps and Server security
• Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud
• Unix command line experience
• Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter and learn quickly
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
• Excellent understanding of software Architectures

Senior / Python Developer

We are looking for a Senior / Python Developers to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products. Your responsibilities include understanding the product very well, and lead the integration of this product into architecture.

To be successful in this role, you should have strong technical knowledge and solid experience of all steps of the software engineering process and the tools associated with those. You should be a go-getter, a clear communicator and a strong collaborator who works well in a team as well as the customer. You should want to do high quality work and produce output that you are proud of.  

• Good understanding of Python especially should have used file/directory access, data persistence, compression and archiving, cryptographic services, concurrent operations, networking and IPC, developmental tools etc.
• Good understanding of key differences in Python 2 vs 3
• Knowledge of lib2to3, six, python-future libraries. Compatibility idioms provided by these libs and their limitations, issues in using them as is.
• Knowledge of Python3 changes in data types especially str, bytes in Py3 vs str, unicode in Py2. Should be able to gauge, understand impact of this on data in transit/data at rest in a large project.
• Knowledge of using C extensions in Python code, modifying to run with Python3, Python 2-3 compatibility.
• Experience working with large python codebase.
• Working knowledge of mysql, Python ORM like sqlobject.
• Working knowledge of Common third party modules like cherrypy, falcon, gunicorn, etc.
• Good experience with basic python, no django/flask needed 
• Some code needs to run in Python 2, some in Python 3 and some in compatibility mode
• Issues for Druva are in ORM, marshalling, networking
• Need candidates having Understanding of basic data types, extensions of python 
• Data type conversion and networking is important 
• Internals of Python are important